
Kôju Murata
1899 - 1958海を渡る祭礼
Hiroshi Inagaki
Haruyo Ichikawa, Fujiko Fukamizu
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teachers gather from all over the country, including sesame oil sellers and organ grinders. The day before the festival, trouble arises with some horses.
Festival Across the Sea
霧笛
Minoru Murata
Eiji Nakano, Ichirō Sugai
Chiyokichi, a young man, hates Cooper, a white man who looks down on the Japanese. Chiyokichi picks Cooper’s pocket and is caught. He is brought to Cooper’s house and becomes his slave, and a riveting tale of passion, hatred, and revenge unfolds.
The Foghorn
汗
Tomu Uchida
Koji Shima, Yasushi Yoshii
Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.
Sweat
Ikeru ningyō
Tomu Uchida
Isamu Kosugi, Takako Irie
Сатира на капитализм, в которой рассказывается о молодом человеке по имени Сэки, который поднимается в обществе путём обмана. Но действующая система в конечном итоге ему отомстит. Колоссальная машина современного на тот момент японского общества не настолько проста, чтобы ею мог управлять провинциальный юноша, подобный Сэки. Сэки, считавший себя гением карьеры, является всего лишь современным роботом. Он думал, что дёргает марионеток за ниточки, в действительности же дёргают за ниточки его.
A Living Puppet
唐人お吉
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yōko Umemura, Reiji Ichiki
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
Mistress of a Foreigner
朝日は輝く
Seiichi Ina, Kenji Mizoguchi
Takako Irie, Joji Oka
The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.
The Morning Sun Shines